As they did before, iCloud customers will still get 5GB of
storage for free, but now, they can purchase an extra 20GB of
space for $0.99 per month. For 1TB of storage, users will pay $20
a month.

The pricing plan is certainly improved over the former deal,
considering many users don’t use all that storage. But Apple’s
iCloud mainly handles documents, photos, apps, and music —
specifically within Apple’s ecosystem devices and services.

Professionals and businesspeople who rely on full cloud
services across a wider range of devices for things like videos,
large photos, and back-end services, might want to consider
Google
Drive or
Dropbox, which gives users the same terabyte of storage for
half of Apple’s price ($9.99 a month, each). Amazon also
charges$0.03 per GB per month for
its S3 cloud service, which is a favorite among developers
(Dropbox included).

That said, Apple users will likely start using
iCloud a bit more once iOS 8 releases to the public, since that
new mobile operating system includes many improvements to iCloud.
Syncing is highly improved, iCloud Photo Library will keep all of
your photos in iCloud forever (instead of the current 30-day
period), and it will soon support and open all document types on
any Mac or iOS device. Apple will make
several other improvements to iCloud as well, which will
become effective starting Sept. 17.